Laravel API 500 Exception Issue

Hi, I'm trying to catch exceptions for my API. Everything like 400, 401, 404, etc all work fine but for 500 errors it doesnt.

$exceptions->render(function (Exception $e, Request $request) {
            if ($request->expectsJson() || $request->is('api/*')) {
                return response()->json([
                    'error' => 'Internal Server Error',
                    'message' => $e->getMessage(),
                ], 500);
            }
        });

I'm using that, but the API just returns a 500 HTML page.

If I do:

$exceptions->render(function (Exception $e, Request $request) {
                return response()->json([
                    'error' => 'Internal Server Error',
                    'message' => $e->getMessage(),
                ], 500);
        });

That works BUT any 500 errors on the web end shows JSON.

I've tried both local and production with debug mode off.

Any ideas how to get around this?